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That news breaks first on Twitter is a truism with implications across the
investment world. The big players from blue-chips to central banks, analysts
and fund managers are tweeting, as is the all-important “public”, and
investors large and small are scrambling to make sense of this information
stream to try to use it to their advantage.

That is a very big ask, with more than 400 million tweets sent every day.

The social network has also transformed the way that members communicate,
causing startling departures from old-school corporate protocol.